Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-03-10
THE NEWS.

alT IOE I0e next Two years.
The snow-storms in Canada last week
the biggest ever known there.
The House of Representatives refused
to grant Mrs. Logan pension.
Governor Foraker gave brilliant
reception on the night OF March 8.
Cardinal Gibbons has warmly CONT
mended the K of LIS to the Pope.
Judge Albion W Tourgee, is seriously
i'll with pneumonia at Maysville, n Y.
Muncie, Ind. :, has opened its fourth
gas W III, and it is magnificent gusher.
Walter A Dun, horse breeder at Lon
don. O., has failed. with large liabilities.
Judge W W johnson, late of supreme
court, died at Ironton, Wednesday
night.
The senate is determined to give Tur
pies alleged election thorough inves>
tigatlon.
Business men of Providence, r I,have
petitioned for repeal of the prohibi>
tory law.
| Yates Ferguson, millionaire distiller
of Paris. KY, died in New York, aged
sixty four.
Noah Hall. Muncie, Ind, was run
over by a train aud killed while gazing
at gas well.
The factory of the Windsor Folding
Bed Co, Chicago, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000.
| The Maine senate has again passed
the woman suffrage constitutional
amendment.
| Engineer NJ L Rose, on the Erie road.
was paralyzed while making a run with
the. st. Louis express.
Beebe & Bray, lumber dealers at Min
neapolis. have assigned. Liabilities
from 100000 to Sl50,0OO.
Elmer Elliott. aged nine, fell into
mud settler of a salt furnace at Pome-
roy and was scaled to death.
The Board of Trade. of Cincinnati are
decidedly opposed to the sale of the
Cincinnati Southern railroad.
The Michigan House passed bill to
pay bounty of one cent head for the
destruction of English sparrows.
The National council of the National
Union League has adopted resolution
to break the solid Democratic south.
The Democrats Of the District of Co
lumbia are wroth because of the appoint
ment of Trotter to be Recorder of deeds.
John Money, of New Albany. Ind.
killed himself because his sick wife
made will leaving her property to her
parents.
Henry Kerner. farmer near Mt Yer
non, Ind, did't know it was loaded.
blew into the mnZzle of his shotgun and
was killed.
The knights of Labor will form
National District Assembly of Iron aud
Steel Workers to fight the Amslgamated
Association.
Rev G Armstrong, of Atlanta, Ca,
has formerally withdrawn from the
Protestant Episcopal Church, on account
of dissipation.
Fritz Hass, over 70 years of age. was
frozen to death during a snowstorm by
which he was oyertaken near Shell
Lake Wisconsin.
Senator Hugh Nelson has been APP
pointed Governor of British Columbia
to succeed Governor Cornwall. whose
term has expired.
An epidemic of measles is raging in
the Ridge Avenue Orphans Home,
with the disease.
Rufus Blodgett, Democrat. was
elected Senator by the New Jersey leg'
islature, on the second ballot, Wednes
day of last week.
Gen Finley, or Ocala. Fla, has
been appointed by Gov Perry U sem
ator to succeed Chas w Jones, whose
term expired March 4.
1 Patrick Holland bombarded a house
of ill-repute at Wabash. Ind. and was
fired upon and killed by Mrs Emma
Weis, sisrer of the prOprietress.
The Ames Sword Co, of Chicopee,
Mass. will hereafter import their BLADES
as it can be done cheaper than the COM
pany can manufacture them in America.
Jas q Trotter, rejected by the senate
committee as Recorder of deeds for the
DISTRICT of Columbia has been appoint
ed Deputy Recorder by Recorder Mstth-
ews.
The syndicate which bought the prop
erty for President Cleyeland's residence
is in luck. and has sold l0S acres near
his mansion, which cost $4,000 for
$4,000.
The B. & o. Railroad has finally made
way, via Staten Island, for entrance
into New York, the Secretary of War
has decided to allow the Arthur Kill
bridge to 60 on.
The interstate Land Co., has pur-
chased 79,0On,000 in Texas, New Mexico
and Colorado. This Is the largest pri
va,e land purchase ever made in the
United States.
The order issued by the Knights of
Labor compelling all cigar makers be
longing to that organization TO with
draw from the International Union, is
to be resciaded.
Al South Boston. Halifax county, Vir-
giDia, fifteen buildings, including Ell
munsOn's storage warehouse, contain
ing 100000 pounds of tobacco, were
destroyed by fire.
Curanado and Leota, Kas, are both
surrounded by guards, permitting ueith-
er egress nor ingress. The two places
are lighting bloodily for the houor of
being the county seat.
Nearly 100 inmates of st. Joseph's
Convent, in South St. Louis, we're pros>
trated on Tuesday with symptoms of
poisoning, supposed to have been cou.
tanned in canned fruit.
IL is now suspected that Laurence
Krug, Chicago, who is In prison for the
murder OF three wives and STEP
daughter, also poisoned Gunda Schoeph
ner, daughter of his first wife's sister.
At st. John, Oak. serious difficulty Is
feared with the half-breeds. There are
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